Are wilderness areas supposed to appear blue on my GPS? I was panning over the Clearwater Wilderness (Just North of Mt. Rainier Park) and it appears as the same color blue as lakes and rivers so it looks like a huge lake.

On my computer screen (mac) the wilderness area does NOT appear blue but instead are a slightly darker green than the surrounding national forests.

Now I see that other wilderness areas are also blue on the GPS map page if I zoom in enough. I use a Garmin 60Cx.

Oh yeah, and Northwest Topos contains all of the trails collected and integrated from Northwest Trails!

One clarification here, Jon. You say it contains ALL of the trails from NW Trails? Does that include the trails from Montana, Alaska, and Oregon that are outside of the map area represented by NW Topos or will I need to load those states separately?

Also, if I have NW Topos loaded on my GPS, is it possible to turn off the topos but leave the NW Trails on? I do this from time to time with Washington 24K topo in order to accelerate screen redraws and also sometimes with all the topo lines on there it can be hard to see the roads/trails. In other words, you say the two are "integrated" but is it still possible to separate them?

I've lost 40 pounds and my wife lost 80 pounds. We've kept it off for two years now.

Much or our success we owe to hiking many miles on weekends. In the last couple of years most of our hiking miles have been on trails that were mapped by others and submitted to this website. We've only submitted something to Jon twice in that time, but we would sure like to thank The Jester and all the others who have submitted maps far more than we have. Jester--not only have you lost weight, you are helping others to lose weight as well!

Many of the trails we would not have known about without these maps. Sometimes, before a weekend, I just pan around the maps on my GPSr looking for trails that we haven't hiked, yet. Then we load up the geocaches on those trails and take off on Saturday.

The NW Trails maps have been by far our most beneficial tool since we started caching 7 years ago.

This zoom level is better than the previous setting but I would prefer it to have the trails show up at a zoom level of about 2 or 3 miles when set to "medium" on Mapsource to help speed up the screen redraw on the GPSr.